Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 2 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 3 | Both the projector and the turntable were powered by the same motor to ensure they ran at the same speed . |
| 4 | Should fix me stiffened at the monstrous sight |
| 5 | With a heart beating as if it wanted to explode I looked at the two dead men ; I had never seen either of them before . |
| 6 | And she took the child by the hand and walked her to the settle , and when they were seated she looked at the small figure by her side , at the hair , like a golden halo round the oval face , and the limpid grey eyes gazing so trustfully at her . |
| 7 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |
| 8 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 9 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |